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Dilks, Stephen John. "Samuel Beckett's Samuel Johnson." Modern Language Review 98, no. 2 (April 2003): 285. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3737811.

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Brack, O. M., Samuel Johnson, David R. Anderson, Gwin J. Kolb, John Cannon, J. C. D. Clark, Robert DeMaria, et al. "Samuel Johnson." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49, no. 2 (1995): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1347985.

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Pritchard, William H. "Authorizing Samuel Johnson." Hudson Review 52, no. 1 (1999): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3852596.

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Lynch, J. "Samuel Johnson, Unbeliever." Eighteenth-Century Life 29, no. 3 (October 1, 2005): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00982601-29-3-1.

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McCrea, Brian. "Book Review: Samuel Johnson: A Biography, Samuel Johnson: The Struggle." Christianity & Literature 59, no. 4 (September 2010): 720–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014833311005900414.

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Sushko, S. A. "Samuel Johnson as Moralist." Soviet Studies in Philosophy 25, no. 1 (July 1986): 87–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/rsp1061-1967250187.

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Johnson, Samuel. "Samuel Johnson on Ireland." Chesterton Review 29, no. 1 (2003): 254–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/chesterton2003291/252.

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Keener, Frederick M., John J. Burke, and Donald Kay. "The Unknown Samuel Johnson." Yearbook of English Studies 17 (1987): 299. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3507710.

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Biester, James. "Samuel Johnson on Letters." Rhetorica 6, no. 2 (1988): 145–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rh.1988.6.2.145.

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Wharton, T. F., and Charles H. Hinnant. "Samuel Johnson: An Analysis." South Atlantic Review 55, no. 1 (January 1990): 142. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3199890.

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Dille, Catherine D. "Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century education." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367772.

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Steen, Jane Elizabeth. "Samuel Johnson and aspects of Anglicanism." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259528.

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Hitchings, Christian Nicholas Henry. "Samuel Johnson and Sir Thomas Browne." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398115.

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This thesis explores the literary and intellectual relationship between Samuel Johnson and Sir Thomas Browne. It demonstrates the importance of Johnson's contribution to the history of criticism of Browne, and also constitutes a case study of Johnson's methods in compiling his Dictionary. I show what grounds there are for believing that Browne was of special importance to Johnson, and that there were significant affinities between the two writers. I set my work against the background of existing scholarship, which tends to neglect the links between Johnson and Browne. I consider the decline of Browne's reputation in the years that followed his death, suggesting how it is possible to see Johnson's work on Browne as a significant recuperation. I then examine Johnson's Life of Browne and the edition of Christian Morals to which it was prefixed, arguing that the Life is an important event in the development of Johnson's biographical method. I next consider the relationship between Browne's natural philosophy and Johnson's, focusing on three particular areas in which their thinking is allied: the emphasis on experiment and observation, the moral purpose of natural philosophy, and the attraction of `strangeness'. Thereafter I examine in detail Johnson's extensive use of extracts from Browne's works in his Dictionary. First I provide a description of Johnson's deployment of illustrative quotations culled from Browne, showing the distribution and sources of quotations, including those added for the fourth edition; the result is a `map' of the Dictionary's use of Browne. I then analyse these findings, in order to determine what fields of knowledge they delineate, as well as how they illustrate Johnson's critical interests and priorities. Finally, I consider Browne's nineteenth-century afterlife. I chart the influence of Johnson's critique and uses of Browne, and examine the championing of Browne by Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb and others

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Ritchie, Stefka. "Samuel Johnson : a promoter of social improvement." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5135/.

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This thesis explores what remains an under-studied aspect of Samuel Johnson’s profile as a person and writer – his attitude to social improvement. Confronting past and current critical opinion and adhering closely to Johnson’s various writings, the thesis aims to establish the reasons for the failure to identify Johnson’s relationship to social concerns during his lifetime. The study also considers the influence of particular moral philosophies on Johnson’s approach to social improvement, such as those of Hugo Grotius, Richard Cumberland, Francis Bacon and John Locke. A range of sources include Johnson’s essays in the Rambler, Idler and Adventurer, his various reviews in the Literary Magazine and the Gentleman’s Magazine, his Diary of his travels in the Midlands and the Tour of the Highlands with Boswell, as well as various texts he wrote for others who were also concerned with social improvement. When Johnson protests against the institutions of his day he seeks to alleviate a tangible evil, such as the wretchedness of prostitutes, the agonies of imprisoned debtors and the destitution suffered by their families and the terrors of those condemned to death, often for some trivial offence. The profiles of Robert Dossie, Robert Chambers, William Chambers and John Gwynne together with those of Saunders Welch and William Dodd are discussed in the context of their interests in agriculture, architecture and the law, respectively. Placing those eighteenth-century figures at the centre of historical enquiry furnishes a richer dimension to the analysis of Johnson’s mode of thinking which allows us to respond to his works in a multi-faceted way. The interpretive framework of the thesis is cross-disciplinary and applies ii perspectives from social and cultural history, legal history, architectural history and, of course, English literature. This allows Johnson’s writings to be read against the peculiarities of their historical milieu and reveal Johnson in a new light – as an advocate of social improvement for human betterment.

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Hitchens, Daniel. "Samuel Johnson and the vocation of the author." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6f8a432e-d34d-42b0-8db9-74cb957c2113.

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Much has been written about Samuel Johnson as a Christian, and much about him as an author; this study is about where the two meet, in the idea of the literary vocation. Though Johnson only uses the word âvocation' a handful of times, it holds both the quotidian sense of a job and the more exalted notion of a divine call, a tension which informs Johnson's thinking. I begin with Johnson's development as a religious writer, influenced by William Law's contention that any form of life can be devout and holy, and by Bernard Mandeville's unsentimental candour. Johnson's writing bears the marks of both. He revised Irene, for instance, to make it less overtly Christian: a reminder that Johnson's religious convictions bring an invisible pressure to bear on apparently secular works. In his early years on the Gentleman's Magazine Johnson develops the principle that authorship, being a public act, carries great responsibilities. It is, in fact, a vocation, and unpacking this concept takes up Chapter 2. Johnson sees writing as a potential form of public service, adding that a solitary writer 'naturally sinks from omission to forgetfulness of social duties'. Too few commentators have grasped that Johnson sees morality in social terms - as a matter of answering the needs of others, according to one's place in an order overseen by divine providence. But again and again he refers to the human need 'to seek from one another assistance and support' (Rambler 104). Instances of mutual help 'by frequent reciprocations of beneficence unite mankind in society and friendship'. Johnson's well-known emphasis on friendship is only one expression of this deeper sense that society is held together by trust; and therefore, by the truth. Writers' communication of truth defines their own social duties. While Johnson can sound close to Shaftesbury when he writes of mankind's sociability, there is really a significant gap between them, because Johnson's view of human nature is more jaded. He expects people to hurt each other for the same reasons they help each other; and he recognises a strong tendency towards pride and superiority - especially among writers, who are tempted to cut themselves off from society. Chapter 3 deals in more depth with a writer's social role, which is simply expressed as the ability to put the truth memorably. Borrowing from a tradition which stretches back to Seneca at least, Johnson believes that a writer becomes a 'benefactor of mankind' by putting the useful, but readily forgotten, principles of the good life into memorable forms. Drawing on Locke's account of the memory, and deviating from Locke's account of moral action, he suggests that literature has a power to move the reason and the passions at once - hence his demand that poetry be both true and pleasurable. While this resembles the Horatian formula of dulce et utile, Johnson added to it a sense of writers' and readers' experience of the text: how âimpressions' are transferred from the world, via the writer, to the text, and so to the reader. Learning how to persuade the audience, however, necessitates first-hand acquaintance with the world. Hence the subjects of Chapters 4 and 5, which are pride and humility respectively. Pride separates the author from the social world, making them ineffectual and unable to communicate truth. The 'Lives' of Swift and Milton establish this partly through their ridicule of the two subjects: though Johnson did not think ridicule established truth, it did restore a balance upset by an author's singularity. 'Singularity' is the word Johnson uses to encapsulate Swift's faults: he was 'fond of singularity, and desirous to make a mode of happiness for himself, different from the general course of things and order of Providence'. Milton, too, is condemned for his arrogance - but even more in order to correct the idolatry of his admirers. Johnson believes that Milton is being written about with absurd reverence, and so puts him back in his place - as just another member of society, with a role to fulfil. Accepting that place involves a measure of humility. The question of the 'dignity of literature', a contested point during the nineteenth century, was alive in Johnson's time, and through his associations with what he himself called 'Grub Street', he lived and worked among many writers who might be thought undignified. Yet in the obscurity of the hacks Johnson found something to praise - an industrious, humble service opposed to the 'letter'd arrogance' of self-satisfied authors. '[T]he humble author of journals and gazettes must be considered as a liberal dispenser of beneficial knowledge' (Rambler 145). By stooping to be merely useful, journalists become great. Particularly in the Journey to the Western Islands, Johnson divests himself of authorial dignity, drawing attention to his own mistakes and omissions. Such a humdrum view of the writer's role, which placed the emphasis on the reader, put Johnson at odds with most of the prominent Romantics - and the scale of their revulsion from Johnson needs two chapters to be dealt with. Chapter 6 argues that their critique, especially that of Hazlitt and Coleridge, was above all about the question of the writer's vocation: and for that reason, Shakespeare was the most contested ground - for Coleridge, Johnson's Shakespeare criticism was impertinent 'filth' aimed at 'the greatest man that ever put on and put off mortality'. But that was exactly the kind of idolatrous view of authorship - what Hazlitt called approvingly 'overstrained enthusiasm' - which Johnson wanted to challenge. However, many of the Romantics' criticisms misrepresented Johnson; he was a more flexible thinker than they realised. In a final chapter, I look at the aftermath of the Romantics: how their accusation that Johnson was too narrow and bigoted to understand Shakespeare is echoed in Macaulay, and even in sympathetic readers like Matthew Arnold, and has dogged Johnson all the way to the present day. And I point out that the Romantic exaltation of the author has faced its own backlash, in ways that suggest Johnson might have seen more clearly than the Romantics thought.

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Leigh, Joanna. "My impossible task? : writing an ethical biopic of Samuel Johnson." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504037.

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McDermott, Anne Colette. "The logic and the epistemological sanctions of Dr. Johnson's arguments." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329610.

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Mayhew, Robert J. "Samuel Johnson on landscape, natural knowledge and geography : a contextual approach." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319041.

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Tankard, Paul 1956. "In full possession of the present moment : Samuel Johnson, reading and the everyday." Monash University, English Dept, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8952.

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Acker, Julia Robertson. ""No woman is the worse for sense and knowledge" Samuel Johnson and women/." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7645.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of English. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in paper. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich.

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Books on the topic "Samuel Johnson"

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Greene, Donald Johnson. Samuel Johnson. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989.

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John, Wain. Samuel Johnson. London: PAPERMAC, 1988.

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Bate, Walter Jackson. Samuel Johnson. Washington: Counterpoint, 1998.

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Samuel, Johnson. Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare. London, England: Penguin Books, 1989.

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The Samuel Johnson encyclopedia. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1996.

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Hinnant, Charles H. Samuel Johnson: An analysis. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988.

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Hinnant, Charles H. Samuel Johnson: An analysis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

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Shakespeare, William. Samuel Johnson & James Boswell. Edited by Johnson Samuel 1709-1784, Boswell James 1740-1795, and Primary Source Media (Firm). Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Media, 1997.

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Samuel Johnson: A life. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2010.

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Hinnant, Charles H. Samuel Johnson: An analysis. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988.

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Book chapters on the topic "Samuel Johnson"

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McGowan, Ian. "Samuel Johnson." In The Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 310–69. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20143-3_21.

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Greene, Donald. "Samuel Johnson." In The Craft of Literary Biography, 9–32. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07452-5_2.

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Lessenich, Rolf. "Johnson, Samuel." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_8826-1.

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Curley, Thomas M. "Samuel Beckett and Samuel Johnson." In Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists, 133–64. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781942954668.003.0007.

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In “Samuel Beckett and Samuel Johnson: Like-Minded Masters of Life’s Limitations,” Thomas M. Curley reminds us that Johnson’s overall philosophy of life was traditionally and emphatically Christian. But he was a fearful believer, part of whose anxiety, Curley argues, stemmed from a sense of existential emptiness flowing from his abiding vision that we do not really live in the present but, exist primarily by means of past or future apprehensions of living. Perhaps no famous modern author, Curley contends, was more fascinated by Johnson and his anxieties than Samuel Beckett. Beckett turned a blind eye to the traditional magisterial figure of the Great Cham and instead focused upon a doubt-ridden and phobia-filled persona, a subversive Johnson, wrought in the Irishman’s own image and serving as a formative influence on his canon. Johnson’s influence upon Beckett—however unlikely—proves upon deeper scrutiny to be profound.

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"Samuel Johnson." In Literary Patronage in England, 1650–1800, 220–45. Cambridge University Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511519024.009.

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"Samuel Johnson." In Proper English, 52–72. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203388495-10.

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Meehan, Michael. "Samuel Johnson." In Liberty and Poetics in Eighteenth Century England, 124–31. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003010098-14.

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"SAMUEL JOHNSON." In 100 Poets, 79–82. Yale University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1z9n1r9.29.

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Johnston, Freya. "Johnson Personified." In Samuel Johnson, 95–107. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0009.

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Smallwood, Philip. "Johnson and Time." In Samuel Johnson, 11–22. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654345.003.0002.

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Conference papers on the topic "Samuel Johnson"

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Kosykh, Tatiana Anatolyevna. "SAMUEL JOHNSON VS DAVID HUME: UNFULFILLED DIALOGUE." In Международный педагогический форум "Стратегические ориентиры современного образования". Уральский государственный педагогический университет, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.26170/kso-2020-158.

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Marhadi, Kun, Satchi Venkataraman, and Shantaram Pai. "Quantifying Uncertainty in Statistical Distribution of Small Sample Data Using Bayesian Inference of Unbounded Johnson Distribution." In 49th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference
16th AIAA/ASME/AHS Adaptive Structures Conference
10t. Reston, Virigina: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2008-1810.

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Vicek, Brian L., Robert C. Hendricks, and Erwin V. Zaretsky. "Probabilistic Analysis for Comparing Fatigue Data Based on Johnson-Weibull Parameters." In ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2007-34849.

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Probabilistic failure analysis is essential when analysis of stress-life (S-N) curves is inconclusive in determining the relative ranking of two or more materials. In 1964, L. Johnson published a methodology for establishing the confidence that two populations of data are different. Simplified algebraic equations for confidence numbers were derived based on the original work of L. Johnson. Using the ratios of mean life, the resultant values of confidence numbers deviated less than one percent from those of Johnson. It is possible to rank the fatigue lives of different materials with a reasonable degree of statistical certainty based on combined confidence numbers. These equations were applied to rotating beam fatigue tests that were conducted on three aluminum alloys at three stress levels each. These alloys were AL 2024, AL 6061, and AL 7075. The results were analyzed and compared using ASTM Standard E739-91 and the Johnson-Weibull analysis. The ASTM method did not statistically distinguish between AL 6010 and AL 7075. Based on the Johnson-Weibull analysis confidence numbers greater than 99 percent, AL 2024 was found to have the longest fatigue life, followed by AL 7075, and then AL 6061. The ASTM Standard and the Johnson-Weibull analysis result in the same stress-life exponent p for each of the three aluminum alloys at the median or L50 lives.

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Park, Taehyun, Daniel Sangwon Park, and Michael C. Murphy. "High Flow Rate Circulating Tumor Cell Capture Device." In ASME 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2011-53214.

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Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) may become a new foundation for early stage cancer diagnosis requiring minimal patient effort [1]. This approach can overcome the limitations of current diagnostic technologies, including computer-aided tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray mammography, and ultrasound (UR) which can detect only highly calcified tumors at relatively high cost. Several studies have demonstrated CTC capture using microfluidic devices to identify the presence of human breast cancer, and the CellSearch™ immunomagnetic system (Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ) is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for monitoring post-treatment therapy, but all of the systems reported have either a long diagnosis time or unacceptable capture rates [2, 3]. CTCs in human peripheral blood are very rare events, typically 1 ∼ 2 CTCs in 1 mL of circulating blood. This low concentration of CTCs requires a large sample volume (∼7.5 mL) to ensure detection. However, current affinity-based microfluidic devices for cell capture usually operate at very low flow rates to increase the capture rate. Therefore, developing high flow rate microfluidic devices for CTC capture is essential and challenging. A new concept of high flow rate device is introduced, simulated, and tested at high flow rates.

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Schneider, Jerry, Jeffrey Wagner, and Judy Connell. "Restoring Public Trust While Tearing Down Site in Rural Ohio." In The 11th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2007-7319.

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In the mid-1980s, the impact of three decades of uranium processing near rural Fernald, Ohio, 18 miles northwest of Cincinnati, became the centre of national public controversy. When a series of incidents at the uranium foundry brought to light the years of contamination to the environment and surrounding farmland communities, local citizens’ groups united and demanded a role in determining the plans for cleaning up the site. One citizens’ group, Fernald Residents for Environmental Safety and Health (FRESH), formed in 1984 following reports that nearly 300 pounds of enriched uranium oxide had been released from a dust-collector system, and three off-property wells south of the site were contaminated with uranium. For 22 years, FRESH monitored activities at Fernald and participated in the decision-making process with management and regulators. The job of FRESH ended on 19 January this year when the U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson — flanked by local, state, and national elected officials, and citizen-led environmental watchdog groups including FRESH — officially declared the Fernald Site clean of all nuclear contamination and open to public access. It marked the end of a remarkable turnaround in public confidence and trust that had attracted critical reports from around the world: the Cincinnati Enquirer; U.S. national news programs 60 Minutes, 20/20, Nightline, and 48 Hours; worldwide media outlets from the British Broadcasting Company and Canadian Broadcasting Company; Japanese newspapers; and German reporters. When personnel from Fluor arrived in 1992, the management team thought it understood the issues and concerns of each stakeholder group, and was determined to implement the decommissioning scope of work aggressively, confident that stakeholders would agree with its plans. This approach resulted in strained relationships with opinion leaders during the early months of Fluor’s contract. To forge better relationships, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) who owns the site, and Fluor embarked on three new strategies based on engaging citizens and interested stakeholder groups in the decision-making process. The first strategy was opening communication channels with site leadership, technical staff, and regulators. This strategy combined a strong public-information program with two-way communications between management and the community, soliciting and encouraging stakeholder participation early in the decision-making process. Fluor’s public-participation strategy exceeded the “check-the-box” approach common within the nuclear-weapons complex, and set a national standard that stands alone today. The second stakeholder-engagement strategy sprang from mending fences with the regulators and the community. The approach for dispositioning low-level waste was a 25-year plan to ship it off the site. Working with stakeholders, DOE and Fluor were able to convince the community to accept a plan to safely store waste permanently on site, which would save 15 years of cleanup and millions of dollars in cost. The third strategy addressed the potentially long delays in finalizing remedial action plans due to formal public comment periods and State and Federal regulatory approvals. Working closely with the U.S. and Ohio Environmental Protection Agencies (EPA) and other stakeholders, DOE and Fluor were able to secure approvals of five Records of Decision on time – a first for the DOE complex. Developing open and honest relationships with union leaders, the workforce, regulators and community groups played a major role in DOE and Fluor cleaning up and closing the site. Using lessons learned at Fernald, DOE was able to resolve challenges at other sites, including worker transition, labour disputes, and damaged relationships with regulators and the community. It took significant time early in the project to convince the workforce that their future lay in cleanup, not in holding out hope for production to resume. It took more time to repair relationships with Ohio regulators and the local community. Developing these relationships over the years required constant, open communications between site decision makers and stakeholders to identify issues and to overcome potential barriers. Fluor’s open public-participation strategy resulted in stakeholder consensus of five remedial-action plans that directed Fernald cleanup. This strategy included establishing a public-participation program that emphasized a shared-decision making process and abandoned the government’s traditional, non-participatory “Decide, Announce, Defend” approach. Fernald’s program became a model within the DOE complex for effective public participation. Fluor led the formation of the first DOE site-specific advisory board dedicated to remediation and closure. The board was successful at building consensus on critical issues affecting long-term site remediation, such as cleanup levels, waste disposal and final land use. Fluor created innovative public outreach tools, such as “Cleanopoly,” based on the Monopoly game, to help illustrate complex concepts, including risk levels, remediation techniques, and associated costs. These innovative tools helped DOE and Fluor gain stakeholder consensus on all cleanup plans. To commemorate the outstanding commitment of Fernald stakeholders to this massive environmental-restoration project, Fluor donated $20,000 to build the Weapons to Wetlands Grove overlooking the former 136-acre production area. The grove contains 24 trees, each dedicated to “[a] leader(s) behind the Fernald cleanup.” Over the years, Fluor, through the Fluor Foundation, also invested in educational and humanitarian projects, contributing nearly $2 million to communities in southwestern Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Further, to help offset the economic impact of the site’s closing to the community, DOE and Fluor promoted economic development in the region by donating excess equipment and property to local schools and townships. This paper discusses the details of the public-involvement program — from inception through maturity — and presents some lessons learned that can be applied to other similar projects.

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Wen, Q., Y. B. Guo, and K. A. Woodbury. "Adiabatic Shear Modeling and Its Influence on Machining Simulations: BCJ vs. JC Model." In ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2005-80107.

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The understanding of mechanical behavior in machining is critical to analyze and design a process. It is well known that work materials experience large strains, high strain rates, high temperatures, and complex loading histories. Adiabatic or quasi-adiabatic condition is an important feature of material deformations in machining ferrous alloys. The problem of how to accurately model the mechanical behavior including the adiabatic effect is essential to understand a machining process. Several constitutive equations such as the simple power law model, Johnson-Cook (JC) model, and other models have often been used to approximate flow stress in machining analysis and simulations. The JC and other empirical or semi-empirical models lack mechanisms in incorporating complex loading effects. The internal state variable plasticity Baumann-Chiesa-Johnson model (BCJ model) has been shown to incorporate loading histories as well as state variables. In this study, we have determined the material constants of AISI 52100 steel (62 HRc) for both the JC and BCJ models using the same baseline stress-strain data. The material constants were obtained by fitting the JC and BCJ models to these test data at different strains, strain rates, and temperatures using nonlinear least square methods. Both models are capable of modeling strain hardening and thermal softening phenomena. However, the BCJ model can also accommodate the adiabatic effect, while the JC model is basically isothermal. Orthogonal cutting tests and FEA simulations, based on the design-of-experiment method, were performed using the cutting tool with a 20° chamfer angle. The predicted saw-tooth chip morphology and dimensions using the BCJ model are consistent with the measured chips in the cutting tests, while the JC model yielded discontinuous chips. In addition, the BCJ model gave larger subsurface von Mises stress, plastic strain, and temperature compared with those by the JC model.

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Shah, Kirat, Robert E. Johnson, and Harish P. Cherukuri. "Numerical Investigations of Various Surface Roughness Parameters on the Performance of Profiled Hydrostatic Thrust Bearing." In World Tribology Congress III. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/wtc2005-63230.

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Measurements of surface roughness on hydrostatic bearing slipper indicate that the surfaces are not always Gaussian. Previous studies in this area were primarily concerned with Gaussian surfaces. In this research the effects of non-Gaussian surface roughness on the performance of profiled hydrostatic thrust bearings are analyzed. This study is applicable to the lubrication conditions where the surface roughness is of the same order of magnitude as the minimum film thickness. Surfaces with different skewness, kurtosis, mean, auto-correlation function and standard deviation are generated numerically using a combination of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and Johnson translatory system. The finite difference method is used to solve the Reynolds lubrication equation. The effect of roughness on the load carrying capacity is investigated and compared with the results for ideal smooth surfaces.

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Bayly, Philip V., and Kevin D. Murphy. "Coupling Between Modes of the Asymmetrically-Forced Stretched String." In ASME 1997 Design Engineering Technical Conferences. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc97/vib-4099.

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Abstract A stretched string that is harmonically forced in one plane may exhibit motion in a perpendicular plane. Previous studies (see Bajaj and Johnson (1992)) have shown that if only one mode is directly excited in the plane of the excitation, the steady-state motion in the perpendicular plane will contain large amplitude motion only in the same mode. In other words, large amplitude, non-planar oscillations may occur only for n:n (e.g., 1:1 or 2:2) coupling. In this paper, it is shown that this result is not true for situations in which the mean force applied to the string is non-zero. A bias force, in combination with harmonic excitation at the second resonant frequency leads to out-of-plane motion of the first mode of the string. This 2:1 resonance is predicted by first-order averaging and is also seen in simulations and experiments.

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Chodora, Evan, Garrison Flynn, Trevor Tippetts, and Cetin Unal. "Improving the Interpretability of Physics-Based Bias in Material Models." In ASME 2020 Verification and Validation Symposium. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/vvs2020-8816.

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Abstract In order to accurately predict the performance of materials under dynamic loading conditions, models have been developed that describe the rate-dependent material behavior and irrecoverable plastic deformation that occurs at elevated strains and applied loads. Most of these models have roots in empirical fits to data and, thus, require the addition of specific parameters that reflect the properties and response of specific materials. In this work, we present a systematic approach to the problem of calibrating a Johnson-Cook plasticity model for 304L stainless steel using experimental testing in which the parameters are treated as dependent on the state of the material and uncovered using experimental data. The results obtained indicate that the proposed approach can make the presence of a discrepancy term in calibration unnecessary and, at the same time, improve the prediction accuracy of the model into new input domains and provide improved understanding of model bias compared to calibration with stationary parameter values.

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Gribov, Evgeniy N., Ivan M. Krivobokov, and Aleksey G. Okunev. "Effect of MEAs Preparation Procedure on Their Performance in Room Temperature DMFC." In ASME 2010 8th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fuelcell2010-33160.

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In this work the effect of the MEA preparation techniques on the performance of DMFC was evaluated using three different methods of electrocatalyst deposition: i) catalyst coated membrane; ii) catalyst coated carbon paper; and iii) decal deposition. Optimization of the nafion content (5–15 wt. %) at anode and cathode sides of the MEA and the pressure (150–500 atm) were also performed. Activities of both supported and unsupported Pt and PtRu catalysts (Johnson Matthew) were compared in room temperature DMFC (RT-DMFC) using polarization curves. All MEAs prepared were also characterized by electrochemical (cyclic voltammetry, impedance spectroscopy) methods. It was shown that optimal nafion content is 5–10 wt. % at both anode and cathode sides, while the optimal pressure is in the 300–500 atm. range. The unsupported catalysts showed slightly higher power density at RT-DMFC (∼ 14 mW/cm2) as compared to the supported ones (∼10 mW/cm2) at the same Pt load. Variation of the wetness of MEAs upon mounting in DMFC allowed us to increase of the power density of RT-DMFC up to 32 mW/cm2.

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